Research Information Ecosystem & RIALTO, a Research Intelligence System for Stanford Tom Cramer Assistant University Librarian @tcramer CNI * April 12, 2018

A Purposeful University “I believe great research universities are a source of light and hope.

They are purposeful in advancing knowledge and human welfare. They are custodians of humanity’s heritage and engines of societal development. They are a major force in maintaining the world’s upward arc of progress.

A purposeful university …promotes and celebrates excellence …as a means to magnify its benefit to society.”

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Stanford Inaugural Address October 21, 2016

What is Stanford’s research output?

Stanford Statistics • 2,180 faculty members • 9,304 graduate students • 7,032 undergraduates • 6,000+ sponsored projects • 18 independent labs, centers

& institutes • $94 million from 779 licensed

technologies •  141 new licenses in 2015-16

http://facts.stanford.edu/pdf/StanfordFacts_2017.pdf

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/budget/plans/BudgetBookFY17.pdf

University Revenue

$1.6 billion research budget

WHO HOW WHAT

Stanford Knows…

A baseball team with •  the line up and •  schedule, •  personal stats, •  but no team scores?

A newspaper with •  Staff, articles and daily readers, •  but that doesn’t track

circulation or keep any back issues?

https://purl.stanford.edu/qx454wd5357

https://purl.stanford.edu/zt289hb8261

Staff of The Stanford Daily in 1926

Stanford Baseball Team, undated

Knowing the What Increasingly Matters • General awareness • Reporting • Demonstrating impact • Trend analysis • Rapid response • Compliance with mandates & policies • Research networking / enabling collaborations

Real Life Questions • What research has Stanford produced? In the last 10 years? • What is the activity of Stanford researchers after they have left?

•  Reporting on CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Awards) from NIH requires publication data, often for post-docs & residents after they move to another institution

• What research has emerged from cross-disciplinary centers at Stanford?

• How many times has Stanford research been viewed / cited? • Where are Stanford researchers doing their projects?

•  Who at Stanford has projects in countries affected by the travel ban? •  Who might also be gathering temperature and rainfall data in an area? •  Who are we doing work with, internationally?

Closer to Home • Why do faculty have to enter publications data three times (into

Profiles, a BioSketch and annual activity reporting)? • Can researchers get automated notifications of relevant funding

opportunities based on previous research & collaborators? • What are the current areas of research that should guide library

acquisitions? • What journals are most important?

•  Cited by Stanford authors; publishing Stanford research • What research proposals have data management plans? • What research projects have data or reports to deposit into

SDR?

Flavors of Research Intelligence Systems • RIM (Research Information Management) • CRIS (Current Research Information System) • RNS (Research Networking System) • RPS (Research Profiling System) •  FAR (Faculty Activity Reporting) • Research Analytics • Research Evaluation

NOT: •  Profiles systems (like Research Gate, Academia.edu, VIVO) • RDM (Research Data Management)

Project

Person

Output

Research Intelligence

See Bryant, Rebecca, et al.; 2017. Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library’s Role. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. doi:10.25333/C3NK88

Stanford’s “Research Core”

Stanford Digital Repository

SeRA Profiles (CAP)

Stanford Research Administration system. Propose & manage grants

Researcher bios and networks; dashboard for research activitiy (future)

The SDR serves to capture, preserve and provide access to the University’s research output and contributions to the scholarly record.

•  preserve and provide access to Stanford-produced articles and data

•  help satisfy funder mandates for research data management

•  source of data and materials for current and future researchers

•  source of citations and artifacts for Profiles and SeRA

•  provide search and discovery of Stanford research on the Web (via SearchWorks); e.g., Stanford ETDs are one of the most searched & viewed resources in SearchWorks

•  relate Stanford people, grants, projects with their data and articles (via RIALTO)

•  give Stanford a competitive edge from intelligence and views on these relationships

RIE: Research Information Ecosystem Who: Dean of Research

+ Libraries + Office of Research Administration + University IT

Objective: Enhance faculty research & scholarship at Stanford How:

•  Open, internal data exchange •  Reduce data friction & reentry •  Increase creative & analytic opportunities •  Leverage data already in the University

From “Cylinders of Excellence” to a Network

Example 1: Publication Data + Profiles

Publication data harvested and

managed by the Libraries

Direct link to full text and data sets in the

SDR (potential development)

Example 2: SeRA + SDR

Intelligence on upcoming grants

with data management requirements

Ticklers to deposit research data /

articles / reports to SDR for

preservation & access (and grant

compliance)

Example 3: Research GeoData to GoGlobal

Stanford’s Office of International Affairs tracks, promotes &

facilitates Stanford’s engagement in

countries across the world.

Example 4: SeRA, STARS, and EH&S

SeRA Research Administration STARS

Training System

EH&S Environmental Health & Safety

Example 5: Space Planning

SNI & Chem-H Designed to innovatively co-locate two emerging research institutes – Stanford Neurosciences Institute and Stanford Chemistry, Engineering Medicine and Human Health (ChEM-H),

Planning office & lab allocation based on

collaboration data extracted from

RIALTO and Profiles.

Q: What is Stanford’s Research Output? Stanford is a research enterprise. SeRA manages grants administration. Profiles & PeopleSoft manage person information. SDR holds digital assets (but not all research artifacts). Where & how do we track the University’s research output?

Q: What is Stanford’s Research Output? Stanford is a research enterprise. SeRA manages grants administration. Profiles & PeopleSoft manage person information. SDR holds digital assets (but not all research artifacts). Where & how do we track the University’s research output?

RIALTO !Research Intelligence !

A:

RIALTO is being developed by SUL • As a database, it captures and relates information on research

artifacts (articles, data and more), research activities (grants/projects), and the people and groups who do them.

• As a web application, it provides intelligence and reporting on Stanford’s research activities and output.

• Through its integration to other campus systems (e.g., Profiles, SeRA, SDR, etc.), it produces and consumes information vital to Stanford’s research core systems.

• Through its campus APIs, it supports visualizations and data mining for special purpose and ad hoc needs.

• Through linked data, it is Stanford’s face to the Web of Data.

RIALTO Stanford Profiles

Report

Stanford Digital

Repository

SeRA

Publishers

Funding Agencies

Reuse

Identifier Services (ORCID,

ISNI)

Web of data

External Repos

RIALTO!

Relate

Emerging Verticals Elsevier Clarivate Digital Science Open stack

Digital Repository

Funding Opportunities

CRIS

Evaluation / Analysis

Publications / Citations

Profiles

Social Networking

Reference Management

Discovery Web of Science

WoS Profiles

InCites

Converis

Scopus

Expert Finder

SciVal

Pure

Mendeley

Mendeley Data / SSRN

FigShare

Dimensions

Symplectic Elements

(FigShare)

(ReadCube)

VIVO

Open Science

Framework

Zenodo

SHARE

Point Solutions of Note: •  Academia.edu •  Research Gate •  ORCID •  CrossRef •  Google Scholar

Posada & Chen: Elsevier’s Growing Position http://knowledgegap.org/index.php/sub-projects/rent-seeking-and-financialization-of-the-academic-publishing-industry/preliminary-findings/

Research Intelligence: Stories from Stanford •  As a university administrator, I need to understand the impact of cross-disciplinary

institutions on research impact so I can assess their ROI •  As a university administrator, I want to measure the impact of research on student

publications to that I can understand which faculty members and granting agencies produce the most student publications

•  As a university administrator, I need to know which publications resulted from which grants so that I can fulfill reporting requirements to funding agencies

•  As a department administrator, I need to know how many publications are being produced by each department so that I can report this information

•  As a subject or data librarian, I want to be able to track incoming awarded grants so that I can talk to researchers about their data preservation and resource needs

•  As the Director of the Office of International Affairs, I need to be able to map Stanford faculty members' international co-authors by institution so that I can make strategic decisions about potential university-wide partnerships.

•  As an administrator, I need to understand how the use of building resources and assignments to rooms affects productivity and output

In other words… • Reduce administrative burden • Feed Profiles, CV and BioSketch systems • Simplify faculty activity reporting • Report and analyze activities • Capture evidence of impact; calculate ROI • Evaluate existing collaborations and find new ones • Analyze funding (output, collaborators, trends) • Support library selection/collection development and consulting

Implications for the Library

Research outputs

Up and Downstrea

m

Information and

Intelligence

Part of Stanford’s Research

Core

Case Study: Fostering International Research “Iwasatamee*ngfortheAcademyofSciencesrecentlyabout‘barrierstointerna*onalresearch,’andmul*plefacultymembersstatedwis>ullythatitwouldbeamazingifwecouldmap,oratleastcount,theinterna*onalco-authorsofStanfordauthorsasacaseforhowimportantinterna*onalresearchersaretoStanford.“DoyouthinkitwouldbepossibletodesignaRIALTOquerythatcouldsurfaceco-authorsfromnon-USins*tu*ons?”

3 Data Runs Later Holy... Peter, I've been waiting 6 yrs for what you did in less than a week! This is the richest data set about our global research footprint that we have ever produced, bar none.

Discussion •  What have we missed so far? •  Where & how are you getting data on research

output? •  Who is using this data at your institution? •  Where are you going for discussion & progress on

research intelligence?

6 Needs in an Immature Field 1.  to understand research intelligence sources, needs

and value. 2.  a holistic appreciation of institutional data – from both

internal and external sources. 3.  to capture data automatically. 4.  to form new partnerships within the institution 5.  to create a free-flowing marketplace for research

intelligence data and systems 6.  to form a community of practice

VIVO & VIVO Combine

9th Annual VIVO Conference June 6-8, 2018